The Most Crucial Decisions

In all three article, “Helicopter Rescues Increasing on Everest”, “Why Everest?”, and “Ranger Killed During Rescue of Climbers on Mount Rainier” all have different points of view regarding the issue of emergency rescues of mountain climbers.

In order to continue climbing Everest, many aspects of climbing need to be improved before more people endanger their lives to try and reach the roof of the world. The guides have some areas that need the most reform. During the ascension of Everest the guides made a plethora mistakes that seemed insignificant but only aided in disaster. The guides first mistake is allowing “any bloody idiot [with enough determination] up” Everest (Krakauer 153). By allowing “any bloody idiot” with no climbing experience to try and climb the most challenging mountain in the world, the guides are almost inviting trouble. Having inexperienced climbers decreases the trust a climbing team has in one another, causing an individual approach to climbing the mountain and more reliance on the guides. While this approach appears fine, this fault is seen in addition to another in Scott Fischer’s expedition Mountain Madness. Due to the carefree manner in which the expedition was run, “clients [moved] up and down the mountain independently during the acclimation period, [Fischer] had to make a number of hurried, unplanned excursions between Base Camp and the upper camps when several clients experienced problems and needed to be escorted down,” (154). Two problems present in the Mountain Madness expedition were seen before the summit push: the allowance of inexperienced climbers and an unplanned climbing regime. A third problem that aided disaster was the difference in opinion in regards to the responsibilities of a guide on Everest. One guide “went down alone many hours ahead of the clients” and went “without supplemental oxygen” (318). These three major issues: allowing anyone up the mountain, not having a plan to climb Everest and differences in opinion. All contributed to the disaster on Everest in

The broadcast of Everest does not fully explain the difficulties and brutality that it truly is. It sets this mentality in the adventurer's heads that climbing Mount Everest isn’t as arduous if you are part of a commercialized team, for example, ‘The Adventure Consultants.’ Fischer has even stated that with all the ropes and camps built in, he has claimed to have “built a yellow brick road to the summit” (Krakauer 86). This demonstrates how the advertising of Everest places psychological arrogance in their minds even before they purchase their $65,000 ‘adventure ticket’. The leaders of the expedition do not caution the paying travelers that even though they can assure the camp tents and food, they can’t assure the safety of their trips. They do not mention the fact that an avalanche could occur, or that a glacier could fall at any second. Lack of accurate, honest information about the expedition that travelers are signing up for is a prominent example of psychological violence because this can soon “He said that the magazine wasn't prepared to shell out $65,000 but that he and the other editors thought the commercialization of Everest was an important story” (Krakauer ). Even before the Outside magazine company sent Krakauer to gain the experience of climbing, he is paid for coming back with a report on the broadcasting of Everest. Once again, this creates psychological

Did you know that more people die than succeed while attempting to climb Mt. Everest? There are many people who are opposed to having people climb the mountain and who are trying to close the mountain to climbers. However, people should be able to climb Everest. If it were to be closed there would be great consequences. First, it would severely affect all of the towns surrounding Everest by taking those jobs away from the Sherpa’s who help the climbers carry their stuff. Second, those who attempt and succeed in getting to the top of Everest feel accomplished and feel good about what they accomplished. Without being able to climb the mountain, there would be a huge amount of people disappointed that they would never be able to achieve that

In Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, a Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer explains his encounter with the great Mt. Everest. As a child, Jon Krakauer longed for climbing, yet he never envisioned that this one ascension would be a calamity. Krakauer was doled out by Outside Magazine to write about the business undertakings that were being directed on Mount Everest in May 1996. Jon Krakauer, the storyteller and creator, depicts a direct record of this disastrous voyage. Krakauer, his aide, and a gathering of climbers set out to the highest point of Mt. Everest to perceive how dangerous or safe it was to handle the world's biggest mountain. Lamentably, 1996 was Everest's most exceedingly bad season ever, and Krakauer describes the

In April of 2014, thirteen climbers had been killed on Everest after a massive wedge of ice broke loose, and ever since this incident, there has been debate whether or not people should continue to be authorized to climb Everest. Daring climbers have been drawn to Everest because of the risks and adrenaline. From reading the sources, I have reached the conclusion that I am an advocate for keeping Everest open.

The Big Decisions by David brooks it was an opinion article in the New York Times. When I read the first sentence I knew I had to write about it. In this article it talked about how if you were giving a chance to turn into a vampire would you choose it and somehow he connects it with making a big decisions. He states that once you make a decision you are not yourself anymore you're a different version of you. In David’s article he argues with a philosophy professor on how to make a transitional decisions and he brings all theses points such as having a child or selecting a spouse which makes his argument stronger.

Many people question whether or not the perils of mountaineering or extreme mountain climbing, such as climbing Mount Everest, outweigh the benefits. Mount Everest enthusiast have recently been debating whether or not the negatives of mountaineering outweigh the positives. If they decide the negatives are greater than the benefits, they may close Mount Everest from the public to be able to make a more informed decision, and if they decide the negatives aren’t greater than the positives, then they will keep Mount Everest open. In my point of view, the negatives of mountaineering outweigh the positives or negatives for reasons that include, cost, death, and religious importance.

The rational decision-making model describes a series of steps that decision makers should consider if their goal is to maximize the quality of their outcome. In other words, if you want to make sure that you make the best choice, going through the formal steps of the rational decision-making model may make sense. The following are the steps taken to come to a rational decision: 1. Identify the problem, 2. Establish decision criteria, 3. Weigh decision criteria, 4. Generate alternatives, 5. Evaluate the alternative, 6. Choose the best alternative, 7. Implement the decision, 8. Evaluate the decision.

The case of Mt. Everest focuses on two commercial expeditions, Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness, and the tragic event on May 10, 1996. These two commercial expeditions were lead by Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, and were consisted of 20 members. Both leaders were experienced climbers, but due to several factors, the expedition resulted into five deaths including Hall and Fischer. The event has thought managers to evaluate the importance of leadership together with its internal and external factors that managers should consider to survive in the high risk business world.

What happened on Everest in 1996? This case study is a perfect example of everything going wrong at precisely the right time. It wasn’t just bad luck, poor planning, inexperienced climbers, bad weather, or improper mindset, it was all of these things combined and more, at the most crucial of times that caused these people to die. The case study explains in great detail how these two groups of very driven people did not become a team or several teams and work together to reach their common goal. They each remained individuals working next to each other, but failing to see the value in teamwork. The two groups were led by some of the most experienced high altitude climbers in the world, but they did not communicate and pay attention to the signals that were very evident when viewed in hindsight, five people lost their

The issue of Mt.Everest and whether it should be open to the public or not is an issue that has recently risen as many mountaineers do not like the idea of it as it is an exhilarating thing to do that gives them a sense of achievement and although there are many risks and challenges people enjoy the activity and believe that it should stay open to the public. Mountaineering as of recent years has gotten much safer as they now use steroids and bottled oxygen because of the high altitude. It is becoming safer may not necessarily be a good thing as it is also very expensive, as in the second source they state that “Each and every one of them had paid $10,000 for a climbing permit” and even after having to pay a large amount of money for simply a climbing permit they run a great risk of death.

Many people try to climb Mount Everest. Some fail and some succeed. Climbing the tallest mountain in the world has several pros and cons. Several people and different organizations try fixing the cons.

Most decisions are made with analysis, but some are judgment calls not susceptible to analysis due to time or information constraints. Please write about a judgment call you’ve made recently that couldn’t be analyzed. It can be a big or small one, but should focus on a business issue. What was the situation, the alternatives you considered and evaluated, and your decision making process? Be sure to explain why you chose the alternative you did relative to others considered.

The worst question someone could ask me is, “What do you want to eat?” What in the world do I want to eat? There are so many options to choose from like a fresh McDonald’s burger or sushi or even just a salad. But I do not know. I do not know what I want to eat. I do not know what I want to eat because I cannot make up my mind. Thankfully, I am not the only one who has to make these life-altering decisions and then suffer the consequences after the decision is made.